Clever Cryptocurrency Theft
April 20 2022Beanstalk Farms is a decentralized finance project that has a majority stake governance system: basically people have proportional votes based on the amount of currency they own. A clever...
Read moreUndetectable Backdoors in Machine-Learning Models
April 19 2022New paper: “Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models“:
Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Strawberry Squid Video
April 15 2022Beautiful video shot off the California coast. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my...
Read moreIndustrial Control System Malware Discovered
April 14 2022The Department of Energy, CISA, the FBI, and the NSA jointly issued an advisory describing a sophisticated piece of malware called Pipedream that’s designed to attack a wide range...
Read moreA Russian cyberweapon, similar to the one used in 2016, was detected and removed before it could be used.
Key points:
- ESET researchers collaborated with CERT-UA to analyze the attack... Read more
John Oliver on Data Brokers
April 12 2022John Oliver has an excellent segment on data brokers and surveillance capitalism.
Read moreDe-anonymizing Bitcoin
April 11 2022Andy Greenberg wrote a long article — an excerpt from his new book — on how law enforcement de-anonymized bitcoin transactions to take down a global child...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Do Squid Have Emotions?
April 8 2022Scientists are now debating whether octopuses, squid, and crabs have emotions. Short answer: we don’t know, but can’t rule it out.
There may be a point when humans can...
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